Faith & Spirituality Sayings

145 sayings found from the Modern era from 145 authors

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. All you have to do is surrender your reason.

— Ayn Rand 1957
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Every secret is a hole in the soul.

— Carl Jung Unknown
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

— William James 1902
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The soul's tragedy lies in the fact that it must destroy what it creates in order to create something new.

— Georg Simmel 1918
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil 1949 (posthumous)
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The truth is that the happiness of man is not in his freedom, but in his submission to God.

— Leo Tolstoy 1894
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The soul is healed by being with children.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

— Charles Dickens Unknown
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To love another person is to see the face of God.

— Victor Hugo 1862
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The Catholic Church is the biggest bugbear in my life.

— James Joyce 1920s-1930s
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The soul of a writer is a very odd fish.

— Virginia Woolf 1920
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

— Aldous Huxley 1950s
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a god or a devil. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a saint or a sinner.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920s
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I don't know if God exists, but if he does, he's a writer.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Unknown
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I have committed the worst sin of all: I have not been happy.

— Jorge Luis Borges 1960
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I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

— Walt Whitman 1855
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The Soul selects her own Society – Then – shuts the Door – To her divine Majority – Present no more –

— Emily Dickinson c. 1862
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I believe in the transmigration of souls, and that the soul may pass from man to beast.

— William Butler Yeats 1913
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

— Pablo Neruda 1959
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The tree is a an endless prayer, said in the language of leaves.

— Rabindranath Tagore early 20th century
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